Description: This is a photograph of woods in an unknown location in Ohio. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F11_005_001
Subjects: Woods; Trees--Ohio; Geography and Natural Resources; Rocks; Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Recreation; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: A woman defense worker during World War II is using an inspection table made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. She is inspecting .50 cal. machine gun ammunition shells before they are loaded with powder and bullet. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00982
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Women; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: St. Louis (Missouri)
 

Description: A photograph of Lincoln's funeral procession in front of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio on April 29, 1865. As the photo depicts, thousands of people lined High Street to honor the fallen President. Later his body laid in state at the Statehouse rotunda, before resuming its journey to Springfield, lllinois aboard the Lincoln Funeral Train. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F03_002
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B05F0831B1_019
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of "Tribolites" a plaster relief by Melik Finkle, 1940.The plaster relief is located at a post office in Sylvania, Ohio in Lucas County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f23_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of the grandstand at the Ohio State Fair in Zanesville, Ohio, September 21, 1859. Photographer J. Tresize was commissioned by the Fairs Fine Arts Committee to document the fair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00712
Subjects: Muskingum County (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Located at 1209 North Limestone Street in Springfield, Ohio, this photograph shows the home of Addison S. Rodgers, secretary of the Springfield Gas Engine Company. Here Addison resided with his wife Ann and his son Addison Jr. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_011
Subjects: Domestic architecture; Houses--1900-1940; Industries--Ohio--Springfield; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view of the buildings and grounds of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company based in Columbus, Ohio, August 13, 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01741
Subjects: Office buildings; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Aerial photographs
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Cleveland's U.S. Marine Hospital, located on Lakeside Avenue, from the collection of Louis Baus. The Marine Hospital was a government-owned institution for seamen which opened in 1852. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B03_A08_823
Subjects: Hospitals; Medicine--History; Military Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940-1949, this photograph shows opera singer and music teacher Katherine Geis standing by an organ. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1875, Katherine showed an interest in music and theater at an early age, possibly influenced by her father's participation in the A.G. Field Minstrel Show for many years. She made her first public appearance at age five as a little midshipman in "Pinafore" in Lancaster. She later appeared at the Schultz Opera House in Zanesville, Ohio, where she sang selections from "Pinafore." At age twelve, she made her first professional appearance as Josephine from "Pinefore," and soon after enrolled in the Cincinnati College of Music. Katherine graduated at age eighteen and earned the Springer Gold Medal for her voice. After graduation, she performed in operas in Kentucky and worked for the Airon Opera Company and later married a tenor in the company, Charles Geis, in 1895. Geis was involved in many civic organizations, such as the League of Women Voters, Business and Professional Women's Clubs, and City Federation of Women's Clubs. She was a member of the Board of County Visitors, pianist and director for the Weller Theatre Orchestra, member and president for two years at the Thursday Morning Club, and forerunner of the Women's Choral Club, was its second president and served as director for many years. Throughout her life she taught music from her home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00093
Subjects: Ohio Women; Women artists; Opera houses; Singers; Zanesville (Ohio)
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pieces of blast furnace down comers built by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B03F95_004
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown; Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "Swimming pool and bathing pavilion on the estate of Charles Williams, 1920 Dexter Ave,. Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by Federal Writer' Photographer, District #2. July 6, 1937". This Second Renaissance Revival house is one of only two in the Walnut Hills community of Cincinnati, Ohio (the other being located at 2923 Wold Avenue). This two story buff colored brick home has terracotta roof shingles and a swimming pool. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_025
Subjects: Architecture; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)